Trial ordered for Towamencin man charged in bloody domestic assault

LANSDALE — A Towamencin man has been ordered to stand trial for allegedly committing in November what police characterized as a bloody domestic assault on a woman who had an active Protection From Abuse Order against him.

Robert Frank Schur, 41, will be formally arraigned in county court next month on charges of simple assault and harassment in connection with the alleged incident, after District Judge Harold Borek of Lansdale held both charges at the conclusion of a preliminary hearing on Dec. 12.

Towamencin police said that just before 2:30 a.m. on Nov. 17, officers were dispatched to Main Street Apartments on the 1100 block of West Main Street for a reported assault and encountered Schur outside his apartment with blood on his nose.

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After entering the apartment, officers found a woman on the living room floor curled up in the fetal position, with a puddle of blood on the floor in the area of her mouth and nose, according to police.

There was also blood smeared on the walls, and trails of blood were observed on the carpet leading to the woman, police said.

After officers began questioning Schur about what happened, he became “extremely aggressive” and “belligerent,” police said, and at one point attempted to push past officers to get out of the living room.

Schur had to be restrained by officers while the woman was being tended to by medics, according to police.

The woman was transported to the hospital for treatment of unspecified injuries, according to police, who said that a subsequent investigation determined that the woman had an active PFA against Schur prohibiting him from contact with her, and that Schur assaulted her during an argument inside the apartment.

Schur was arraigned later that morning before District Judge Kathleen Valentine of Ardmore on charges of misdemeanor simple assault and summary harassment, as well as contempt for violation of order.

Schur was then transported to Montgomery County Correctional Facility in lieu of $5,000 cash bail, and released three days later, on Nov. 20, after he posted bond.

At Schur’s Dec. 12 preliminary hearing before Borek, however, the judge set bail in the case at $10,000, and Schur was recommitted to MCCF until Dec. 16, at which point he posted bond, court records show.

Schur is scheduled to be formally arraigned on the assault and harassment charges on Jan. 29.

Before then, though, Schur is due in county court to face the contempt charge for violating the PFA; those proceedings are set for Jan. 15.